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Blackberry hits iPhone keyboard

by on18 February 2015


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BlackBerry has increased it's the pressure on the Chinese burn it is giving Ryan Seacrest's Typo Products.

Blackberry filed a new complaint that alleges that the company's new keyboard case for the iPhone also infringes on its patents.

Last March, the Waterloo, Ontario-based smartphone pioneer won an injunction against the first iteration of the Typo case made for some of Apple's iPhone devices. BlackBerry is now seeking another injunction to halt sales of the redesigned Typo 2 case as well.

In a new complaint filed with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Blackberry claims that the Typo 2 case for the iPhone 5, 5s and iPhone 6 models, also infringe on its patents.

Earlier this month, the court ordered Typo to pay BlackBerry $860,600 in sanctions, plus attorneys' fees and costs as it said that Typo had blatantly violated the court's initial injunction.

Typo said the court order had no impact on its TYPO 2 product in the marketplace, or its other planned product releases.

"Just as they did with the Typo Keyboard, defendants have again copied numerous proprietary BlackBerry designs and patents in the Typo2 Keyboard," said BlackBerry in its complaint.

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